I couldn't agree more. And thank you for showing support. Huji
On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 6:31 PM, Jonathan Morgan <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an incredibly important initiative. Having procedures to ensure > that we can preserve vital infrastructure (bots and tools), and a committee > to oversee the process of implementing those procedures, is a crucial step > to "future-proofing" Wikimedia. It certainly helps me sleep better at night > :) > > So, heartfelt thanks and congratulations to Bryan and the Tool Labs > Standards Committee for stepping up. I promise to support your work any way > I can! > > Cheers, > Jonathan > > On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 2:29 PM, Bryan Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hopefully most of you are aware that over the last several months I >> have been working with the Tool Labs community to draft policies to >> help ensure that vital tools and bots can live on if their initial >> maintainers lose interest or are otherwise prevented from keeping >> their projects in good working order. I am very happy to announce that >> we now have two policies and a volunteer working committee to help >> enforce the policies. >> >> The Tool Labs right to fork policy [0] helps to protect Wikimedia >> wikis from loss of a useful tool. It guarantees the right to fork an >> existing tool project by developers who are interested in extending >> and maintaining it after the original developers have lost interest. >> >> The Tool Labs Abandoned Tool policy [1] helps to protect Wikimedia >> wikis from loss of a useful tool. It defines processes for: >> * Requesting to be added as co-maintainer of a tool which has no >> active maintainers (adoption) >> * Requesting removal of inactive maintainers in a tool they have >> adopted (usurpation) >> >> The Tool Labs Standards Committee [2] is a group of Wikimedia >> volunteers who review, approve, and facilitate access requests for the >> source code of Tool Labs hosted tools, and adoption and usurpation of >> abandoned tools. Seven outstanding community members have been chosen >> to form the initial committee: >> * Eran Roz (User:Eranroz) >> * James Hare (User:Harej) >> * Huji Lee (User:Huji) >> * Amir Sarabadani (User:Ladsgroup) >> * Matanya (User:Matanya) >> * Nick Wilson (User:Quiddity) >> * zhuyifei1999 (User:Zhuyifei1999) >> >> There is a lot of work left to be done to establish the basic >> operating procedures used by the committee. I am looking forward >> working with the committee to help them get started. After some >> initial setup I expect them to become self-sufficient in carrying out >> the work of evaluating and processing requests from the community. >> Please join me both in thanking these individuals for accepting this >> responsibility and in helping them support all of us who create and >> use tools to make the wikis better. >> >> >> [0]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Right_to_ >> fork_policy >> [1]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Abandoned >> _tool_policy >> [2]: https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Tool_Labs/Tool_Labs >> _standards_committee >> >> Bryan >> -- >> Bryan Davis Wikimedia Foundation <[email protected]> >> [[m:User:BDavis_(WMF)]] Sr Software Engineer Boise, ID USA >> irc: bd808 v:415.839.6885 x6855 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Labs-announce mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-announce >> > > > > -- > Jonathan T. Morgan > Senior Design Researcher > Wikimedia Foundation > User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> > > > _______________________________________________ > Labs-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l > >
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